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Cannot get X working with nvidia driver? [SOLVED]
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Author:  yaplej [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Cannot get X working with nvidia driver? [SOLVED]
I have been struggling to get X to work with the nvidia driver. The video card is an EVGA 256-A8-N341-LX GeForce 6200 AGP. I thought things were odd when I could not get LinHES to install unless using vesa drivers. After I got it installed I installed the nvdia drivers and tried to get a basic X config working. When I boot the system does not respond so I start with nologin and remove the xorg.conf then reboot again. This at least allows the system to boot.

When I copy a new xorg.conf that uses the nvdia driver I get the following dump.
Code:
 LinHES-BE ------------[ cut here ]------------
 LinHES-BE invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 LinHES-BE last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.0/resource
 LinHES-BE Process X (pid: 5314, ti=cedc2000 task=f3934c00 task.ti=cedc2000)
 LinHES-BE Stack:
 LinHES-BE 0007ffff fff80000 00000000 00000020 ce546f60 00080000 ce546f60 01001000
 LinHES-BE c018232d ff7fe000 ffffffff 000000d0 f7ffe000 00000001 ff7fe000 00000573
 LinHES-BE Call Trace:
 LinHES-BE [<c018221f>] alloc_vmap_area+0x1bf/0x220
 LinHES-BE [<c018232d>] __get_vm_area_node+0xad/0x180
 LinHES-BE [<c0182496>] get_vm_area_caller+0x46/0x50
 LinHES-BE [<faa75e72>] _nv005339rm+0x4a/0x51 [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<c01211d3>] __ioremap_caller+0x153/0x2c0
 LinHES-BE [<c0121454>] ioremap_nocache+0x14/0x20
 LinHES-BE [<faa75e72>] _nv005339rm+0x4a/0x51 [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<faa75e72>] _nv005339rm+0x4a/0x51 [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<faa819a8>] _nv003766rm+0xf1/0x17d [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<faa81d5c>] _nv003845rm+0x59/0x513 [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<faa7d076>] rm_init_adapter+0x62/0xab [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<fab4b912>] nv_kern_open+0x5e2/0x6b0 [nvidia]
 LinHES-BE [<c019581e>] chrdev_open+0xee/0x1d0
 LinHES-BE [<c0190dcb>] __dentry_open+0xdb/0x2a0
 LinHES-BE [<c0191077>] nameidata_to_filp+0x47/0x60
 LinHES-BE [<c0195730>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x1d0
 LinHES-BE [<c019e19d>] do_filp_open+0x1ad/0x830
 LinHES-BE [<c01a88d8>] mntput_no_expire+0x18/0x110
 LinHES-BE [<c01a2922>] dput+0x82/0x130
 LinHES-BE [<c040ead5>] _spin_unlock+0x5/0x20
 LinHES-BE [<c0190ba1>] do_sys_open+0x61/0xf0
 LinHES-BE [<c01a2922>] dput+0x82/0x130
 LinHES-BE [<c0190cac>] sys_open+0x2c/0x40
 LinHES-BE [<c0103f13>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x33
 LinHES-BE [<c0400000>] tulip_parse_eeprom+0x29d/0x59d
 LinHES-BE Code: 8b 5a 18 8d 4e 18 89 46 1c 89 5e 18 89 4a 18 89 4b 04 5b 5e c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8b 46 04 3b 42 f4 76 08 8d 42 04 89 d1 eb 9d 90 <0f> 0b eb fe a1 b8 f9 50 c0 8d 56 18 c7 46 1c b8 f9 50 c0 89 46
 LinHES-BE EIP: [<c0182038>] __insert_vmap_area+0x88/0xb0 SS:ESP 0068:cedc3d0c


My xorg.conf is as follows. I seems pretty basic and its only slightly modified from the original "X -configure" output config file.
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "Unknown"
        HorizSync      31.0 - 61.0
        VertRefresh    50.0 - 75.0
        Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV44A [GeForce 6200]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport  0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport  0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Author:  yaplej [ Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:53 am ]
Post subject: 
I have been fighting this thing off and on for months. I disabled Hyper-Threading and it works flawlessly. In the process of trying to get this working I did install the latest version of the nvidia drivers but that did not make any difference. Once I turned off Intel Hyper-Threading though X started up using the nvidia driver flawlessly.

Wish I would have tried that much sooner. Would have probably made installing much easier too.
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